The book delves into the financing of the monarchy, revealing how it relied on a disorganized and inefficient system of private enterprise. As Professor Bosher illustrates, this chaotic approach became increasingly unmanageable and wasteful over time, shedding light on the complexities of royal funding and its implications.
Imperial Vancouver Island, Who was Who 1850-1950 is an enlarged second edition of an A to Z biographical dictionary of about 800 British officers, civil servants, and others from the British Isles and other parts of the Empire who retired to Vancouver Island or who lived there for some time.
A reassessment of the French Revolution argues that the angry masses were in fact a socially mixed and transient group and that revolution was not an inevitable expression of French political and economic dissatisfactions.